Make them know how to use the language points in this part correctly and get them understand the reading passage better.

　　1. Students learn more about history and basic knowledge of festivals.

　　2. Students learn different reading skills.

　　3. Try to compare and make conclusion s of different festivals.

　　 Step I Revision

　　Review some names of the festivals and talk about them briefly.

　　Play a guessing game. Try to guess what festival it is.

　　Step II Reading

　　1. Prediction. Look at the title and the pictures to predict what might the text be about.

　　This reading briefly introduces the earliest kinds of festivals with the reasons for them, then four different kinds of festivals that occur in most parts of the world.

　　2. Skimming.

　　Find the main idea of the text.

　　A.The text mainly tells us the origins of festivals.

　　B.The text mainly tells us the development of festivals.

　　C.The text is about different kinds of festivals around the world,and the ways people celebrate them.

　　D.The text is about the differences of festivals between the east and the west.

　　Scanning

　　Scan the text quickly and then fill in the following chart.

Kinds of Festivals Names of Festivals 　　Countries Festivals of the Dead 　　1.　　　

　　2.Day of the Dead

　　3.　　　 　　　　　

　　Some Western countries